Section 1 instructs GS employees to open up the PC version of Deus Ex: HR, and remove the OnLive coupon and "discard" it. Aside from their typical despicable practice of opening packages, now they are removing competitor's ads/coupons. I'm sure OnLive paid the publisher money to have that coupon included in the box.

It amazes me how many people still voluntarily give that scumbag company their money.

Exactly! I just don't get it. Well, I guess I get clueless housewives who have a nagging teenager who wants the latest call of duty so he can go 'pwn all the noobtards', and this woman has no concept of online purchasing or that you can buy video games at places other than video game stores, but for seasoned gamers to buy there ... that I just don't get. They are reprehensible, IMO. This is just more proof.

By the logic of not supporting another competing service, this is completely stupid. After all, Deux Ex is a Steamworks game, and you just put the code into Steam to get access through the ultimate PC competition.

For Canadians who for some reason want this in a box, I got my copy from Future Shop (a Best Buy company). I got the box because I pre-ordered it for $34 during a crazy E3 promotion. Box came sealed with the OnLive code in it. Funny how Best Buy doesn't seem to care.

It amazes me how many people still voluntarily give that scumbag company their money.

Exactly! I just don't get it. Well, I guess I get clueless housewives who have a nagging teenager who wants the latest call of duty so he can go 'pwn all the noobtards', and this woman has no concept of online purchasing or that you can buy video games at places other than video game stores, but for seasoned gamers to buy there ... that I just don't get. They are reprehensible, IMO. This is just more proof.

I buy where it is most convenient for me. The moment they do something that affects me, I'll buy somewhere else. I bought DXHR at Target because it was pen two hours earlier. That was the only reason.

That said, I cannot see why a PC gamer would even consider Gamestop. They are less committed to PC games than a grocery store is to selling books and magazines.

"I suggest we imbibe copious amounts of alcohol and just wait for the inevitable blast wave." - Castiel

For Canadians who for some reason want this in a box, I got my copy from Future Shop (a Best Buy company). I got the box because I pre-ordered it for $34 during a crazy E3 promotion. Box came sealed with the OnLive code in it. Funny how Best Buy doesn't seem to care.

I never buy there new, but will go there for used when they have buy 2 get 1 or some sweet promotion.

That's about the best situation for them though.

Yep, and this is primarily the reason they dumped PC games. They made shelf space for used console games, which they buy at like 5 or 10% cost, and resell at 85 to 90% cost. Huge markups.

Jayhawker wrote:

That said, I cannot see why a PC gamer would even consider Gamestop. They are less committed to PC games than a grocery store is to selling books and magazines.

They've shown nothing but contempt for PC gamers for the last 10-12 years. Back in the EB days, hell you had a return policy on PC games. Now Gamestop completely ignores PC games, unless it's a mega-seller (you can bet they'll carry Diablo 3 and have a midnight opening gala event for it), and then they open boxes and sell them as new.

GameStop spokesperson Beth Sharum confirmed the practice, telling Ars that "Square Enix packed the competitor’s coupon with our DXHR product without our prior knowledge and we did pull these coupons."

Without our knowledge... as if you're the only store selling the game. Best Buy, Walmart, Target, Amazon, etc. aren't doing anything like this. The publisher made a deal that has nothing to do with Gamestop, but they're sticking their noses in it. Jeez.

For Canadians who for some reason want this in a box, I got my copy from Future Shop (a Best Buy company). I got the box because I pre-ordered it for $34 during a crazy E3 promotion. Box came sealed with the OnLive code in it. Funny how Best Buy doesn't seem to care.

For Canadians who for some reason want this in a box, I got my copy from Future Shop (a Best Buy company). I got the box because I pre-ordered it for $34 during a crazy E3 promotion. Box came sealed with the OnLive code in it. Funny how Best Buy doesn't seem to care.

Terrible decision by Gamestop's management. All they're doing is hurting their own customers.

I wonder if PSN hadn't been down if Gamestop would have yanked the Steam copies of Portal 2 that were bundled with the PS3 copies of Portal 2.

I'll go now, to make bigger mistakes and to embarrass this fine institution even more. But let me leave you with one last thought: If you can laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk. Thank you.

Regarding the Deus Ex: Human Revolution OnLive Codes: We don’t make a habit of promoting competitive services without a formal partnership. Square Enix packed the competitor’s coupon with our DXHR product without our prior knowledge and we did pull these coupons. While the new products may be opened, we fully guarantee the condition of the discs to be new. If you find this to not be the case, please contact the store where the game was purchased and they will further assist.

Jeff-66 wrote:

"our DXHR product"

WTF? their product? I didn't realize Gamestop developed and/or published DXHR. Good for them for branching out.

I never buy there new, but will go there for used when they have buy 2 get 1 or some sweet promotion.

That's about the best situation for them though.

I get what you are saying, but that is about the best situation for me as well:)

I do buy 90% of games new - the only ones I buy used are cheapo games just for achievements.

GameFly and Goozex are your friends.

I keep thinking about getting Gamefly. Enable me?

Totally worth it for me. $17 a month, for 1 game at a time. Plans up to 4 at a time for $30 (I think). Typically 2 or 3 day shipping each direction, so if I return a game Monday, I usually have the next one by Friday. Though other people have had longer shipping times, probably depending on where they are, since GF only have 5 shipping centers. I'm near Philly and there is a shipping center in Pittsburgh, like 4 hours away. Besides potentially the actual shipping time (which doesn't affect me personally, but is a concern), the only problem I've had is games not being available, even when my Queue is full, so sometimes they take a few days to send out the next game which means I am without a GF game for over a week. This doesn't happen very often though, unless you only have new games in the Queue, so even with just the 2 game plan you should always have at least one out.

For Canadians who for some reason want this in a box, I got my copy from Future Shop (a Best Buy company). I got the box because I pre-ordered it for $34 during a crazy E3 promotion. Box came sealed with the OnLive code in it. Funny how Best Buy doesn't seem to care.

Do we even have Gamestops up here?

We have EB Games, which is the same thing.

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

Tanglebones wrote:

Literally, since Gamestop bought EB a few years back.

Many of the new stores opening in Canada are being called GameStop (we have a couple here now) and yeah, EB Games are literally the exact same thing.

Right. Forgot about them. I don't think I've been to an EB in a few years. Still haven't seen an actual Gamestop. I always pictured Gamestop similar to Best Buy in size.